NEA Grant Will Help Artists Remain in Gentrifying Downtown L.A.
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Mike Boehm
CALIFORNIA---L.A.’s Department of Cultural Affairs received a $75,000 grant this week from the National Endowment for the Arts to offset the effect of gentrification in the city’s downtown arts district just west of the Los Angeles River. Concerned that rising rents are driving out the very folks for whom it is named, the department is setting up the Affordable Artists’ Housing Partnership, a sort of referral service connecting artists with subsidized-rent opportunities in the arts district. Federal law gives developers tax credits for reserving units for low-income families at below-market rates. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 specified artists and writers as groups the subsidies were intended to reach. [link]
By Mike Boehm
CALIFORNIA---L.A.’s Department of Cultural Affairs received a $75,000 grant this week from the National Endowment for the Arts to offset the effect of gentrification in the city’s downtown arts district just west of the Los Angeles River. Concerned that rising rents are driving out the very folks for whom it is named, the department is setting up the Affordable Artists’ Housing Partnership, a sort of referral service connecting artists with subsidized-rent opportunities in the arts district. Federal law gives developers tax credits for reserving units for low-income families at below-market rates. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 specified artists and writers as groups the subsidies were intended to reach. [link]
